How long does it take to read 2001?
A Space Odyssey
2001 by Arthur C. Clarke takes about 4 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Space Odyssey
Next: 2010: Odyssey Two
About 4 hours 24 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1968. 240 pages, about 66,000 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 117 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A novel that proposes an idea about how the human race might have begun and where it might be headed...given a little help from out there. A colaboration of ideas with director Stanley Kubrick in the late 1960's it begins at "the dawn of man" and then leaps to the year 2001 where a mission to Saturn (Jupiter in the film) is mounted to try and answer questions raised by the discovery of an ancient artifact dug up on the moon. Though not particularly fast paced, the science is good, and there are a few hair raising events. There are also interesting speculations about the future, such as the space shuttle, and a device eerily similar to an iPad. Leaving plenty of room for contemplation and the appreciation for the inevitable trials of space travel, this is one of the truly landmark pieces of hard science fiction.
Subjects: Human-computer interaction, Computers, Fiction, Science fiction, Twenty-first century, Space vehicles
